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Commit 55412841 authored by Andrew Burgess's avatar Andrew Burgess
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gdb: fix use of uninitialised gdb_printing_disassembler::m_in_comment

Simon pointed out that gdb_printing_disassembler::m_in_comment can be
used uninitialised by the Python disassembler API code.  This issue
was spotted when GDB was built with the undefined behaviour sanitizer,
and causes the gdb.python/py-disasm.exp test to fail like this:

  (gdb) PASS: gdb.python/py-disasm.exp: global_disassembler=GlobalPreInfoDisassembler: python add_global_disassembler(GlobalPreInfoDisassembler)
  disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
     0x0000555555555119 <+0>:     push   %rbp
     0x000055555555511a <+1>:     mov    %rsp,%rbp
     0x000055555555511d <+4>:     nop
  /home/user/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/disasm.h:144:12: runtime error: load of value 118, which is not a valid value for type 'bool'

The problem is that in disasmpy_builtin_disassemble we create a new
instance of gdbpy_disassembler, which is a sub-class of
gdb_printing_disassembler, however, the m_in_comment field is never
initialised.

This commit fixes the issue by providing a default initialisation
value for m_in_comment in disasm.h.  As we only ever disassemble a
single instruction in disasmpy_builtin_disassemble then we don't need
to worry about reseting m_in_comment back to false after the single
instruction has been disassembled.

With this commit the above issue is resolved and
gdb.python/py-disasm.exp now passes.
parent e4146092
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